Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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This is me inside the dome, preparing the dome projection setup. This picture was taken with a fisheye lens; the dome is big but not that big...
And here is the projection rig: a 60 cm half-sphere security mirror and a video projector hooked up to a PC. Simple but very effective!
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Many thanks to Paul Bourke for sharing his dome projection software and movie trailers! I had a great time playing around with various panoramic pictures.
Below you can see an outtake from a planetarium movie. Flying towards and then through the space station was incredible; people kept asking me to play it again and again.
Winamp in combination with the Milkdrop plug-in also drew a lot of attention. Even though the music visualization was not pre-warped to fit the dome, it still made for some very cool visuals.
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So here we are, at WhatTheHack! I had lots of help raising the dome, thanks everybody! It was exciting to see the frame grow higher and higher, until it had reached its full height of 3 meters.
Then it was time to hang up the cover. It turns out that the elastic cords I used were too short! Fortunately, I brought lots of cable ties so that was easily solved...
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| All in all, the dome tent project was a great success and I am very satisfied with the result. It looks exactly as I had imagined!
The weather at WTH was very, very wet but the dome held up beautifully. The cover did not leak at all; there were only a few drops of water coming in through the ventilation holes during the worst of the rainstorms.
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